Wesley Liebeler: Warren Report Memorandum : The JFK Assassination

About the Liebeler Memorandum

Liebeler’s memorandum, along with many other Warren Commission documents, was placed in the National Archives. It was overlooked for many years until Howard Roffman made use of it in his book, Presumed Guilty, in the mid–1970s.

The memorandum was first published in full by the House Select Committee on Assassinations as JFK Exhibit no. 36 in its appendix, volume 11, pp.224–232, a scan of which is available in PNG format at https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=83#relPageId=230.

The page numbers quoted by Liebeler do not correspond to those in the published Warren Report.

This Edition

HTML elements have been incorporated to make the memorandum accessible to search engines and web browsers. Liebeler’s reliance on no more than headings, paragraphs and ordered lists lends itself well to a web–based format. The headings reproduced here are Liebeler’s own.

Wesley J. Liebeler

Dr Wesley Liebeler, known as ‘Jim,’ was an academic lawyer, specialising in anti–trust and constitutional law. In 1965 he joined the law department of UCLA, later becoming professor. From 1999 he was professor of law at George Mason University in Washington. He died in a plane crash in 2002, aged 71.